MMA: The state of Conor McGregor; bold predictions for 2020 (1/8)
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The boys are back! Brian Campbell is joined by UFC Hall of Famer Rashad Evans and Brandon Wise to start the new year of right with a jam packed episode. Rashad kicks off the show by discussing the evolution of UFC over the past 10 years (5:40). The team debates who truly owned the decade (11:19) and how they would define the 2010s (17:35). Conor McGregor is set to return next week at UFC 246, we break down his interview with TheMacLife (22:55). Can Conor compete for a championship at 170 (37:15)? What happens to McGregor if he loses his matchup with Donald Cerrone (43:27)? The team looks forward to 2020 to discus the state of the heavyweight division (54:30) and what this year has in store for Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz (59:17)? We finish off the show by giving 2020 bold predictions (1:19:23).
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| 0:00.0 | This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football. |
| 0:07.6 | What a fantastic night of football. |
| 0:10.5 | Including Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match. |
| 0:14.5 | It doesn't get much better than that. |
| 0:16.6 | And 10 Premier League games. |
| 0:19.6 | This week, |
| 0:22.5 | watch Wolves v. Man United, |
| 0:24.2 | Liverpool versus Leicester, |
| 0:26.4 | and eight other Premier League games. |
| 0:29.4 | It's on Prime. |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, yeah, back with a bang in 2020. |
| 0:58.9 | It's the state of combat podcast on CBS Sports with your boy, the Brian Campbell, back from the grave, back in the new year, back with the MMA ahead of what should be a wild and woolly year. |
| 1:06.3 | That, by the way, kicks off in a little bit more than a week when Connor McGregor and Cowboy Soroni do business in Las Vegas. |
| 1:09.6 | We're going to have a lot to talk about on that today, full preview next week. |
| 1:14.1 | But your boy, B.C., very happy to be back with you this week talking to M.M.A. |
| 1:18.9 | on the pod, just a few days removed from a pretty vicious battle with pneumonia. If you've heard me on the other state of combat offerings, hey, take your health seriously out there, right? |
| 1:24.6 | Stop eating. |
| 1:25.4 | You've been eating out of gas stations long enough now stop being greedy all right we don't need that we don't need that |
| 1:31.1 | anymore bc so happy to be back on the first show of 2020 and we're gonna have a lot a little bit |
| 1:37.7 | to look back at the last decade a lot of bit of a look ahead to what this year could be. I'm fired up. |
| 1:44.8 | I'm back. |
| 1:45.5 | I back. |
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